Deadpool

"Deadpool is not for kids!" - warned the advertisments.   "It's Rated R for a reason"  The red band trailer showed him stabbing a villain.  Gasp!

The only thing that made this rated R was the sex - some bare breasts and some simulated - intercourse - both natural and otherwise.  Ho hum.

As to the violence, no different from any other James Bond/ Jason Bourne/ Liam Nesson spy movie.   Note to studios, don't give bad guys semi auto weapons if they can't hit the side of the barn with them.

As to the plot, Ryan Reynolds play the lead, Wade, who we are expected to think it a bad ex-soldier.  When the badder guys get to him and nearly kill him, he seeks revenge through his alter ego, the red-suited character named Deadpool for being the winner of a certain game, the Dead Pool.    Don't worry, its not worth trying to understand.

At its best, certain scenes, the 12 bullets, reminded me of Fight Club.  But unlike that movie, there's not much reason for fighting here.  At its worst, the dialogue was a stream of inane references to other movies, books, actors which made it seem like a spoof.  But a spoof of superhero movies, with no hero, no story, no calling, makes this remind me of the masturbation scenes in the movie (there are more than 1 of such scenes).

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